"Why do they hate us?" So stunned Americans asked, after 9/11, when we learned that across the Arab world, many were saying, “The Americans had it coming.â€They hate us because we are free, and successful, to start. For a textbook example of why we are hated, consider Gaza and the West Bank. There, a brutal Israeli/U.S.-led cutoff in aid has been imposed on the Palestinians for voting the wrong way in a free election. Immediately after Hamas’s victory, Israel halted the $55 million a month the Palestinian Authority received as its share of tax and customs revenue. Israel demanded Europe...